The Project

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein (2025), starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, was built on sprawling practical sets — a tower laboratory, a ship, gothic interiors — rather than digital backlots. Released by Netflix, the film is a dream project del Toro had carried for over a decade. That scale of hand-built production put real pressure on the camera department’s wireless video chain, which the crew handled with the Vaxis Storm 3000.

The Challenge

Large practical builds like the tower laboratory and ship sets create wireless transmission conditions that are far from ideal: multiple levels, metal structures, tight interiors combined with wide exteriors, and a crew that needs to move fast between setups. On top of that, period and horror productions like this one lean heavily on multi-camera coverage to capture performance-driven, often single-take moments — meaning several video feeds need to reach the video village simultaneously, in sync, with no visible latency and no compression artifacts that could hide crucial performance detail (especially with heavy prosthetic and makeup work on the Creature).

The Solution: Vaxis Storm 3000

The Vaxis Storm 3000 is a zero-delay wireless HD video transmission system built for exactly this kind of environment. On set, it gave the camera department:

1. Uncompressed, zero-delay HD transmission over 3G-SDI and HDMI, so what appeared on the video village monitors matched the camera feed frame-for-frame — critical when directing subtle, prosthetic-heavy performances like Jacob Elordi’s turn as the Creature

• Range of up to 1 km (3,000+ ft) line-of-sight, giving the crew the freedom to place video village well clear of the set without losing signal integrity

• 20 selectable channels and enhanced anti-interference performance, keeping transmission stable even inside the metal-heavy, multi-level practical sets used for Victor’s laboratory and the ship
• Fast setup, letting the camera team move between the film’s many practical locations without losing time re-configuring gear

Impact on Production

With Storm 3000 handling the wireless video chain, the camera department was able to give del Toro and the DP a real-time, reliable window into every practical set the production built — from the storm-lit laboratory sequence to the ship-bound scenes at “the farthermost north.” The system’s stability across large, obstruction-heavy builds meant the video village could stay focused on the performances and the frame, rather than troubleshooting signal.

About Vaxis

Vaxis designs professional wireless video transmission systems for film, television, and broadcast production. The Storm series is built for productions that demand zero-delay, broadcast-grade image quality across the toughest on-set RF environments, from single-camera independent shoots to large-scale multi-camera productions.

Beyond wireless video, Vaxis also offers wireless full-duplex intercom systems, giving productions a complete wireless communication solution — connecting not just what the camera sees, but what the crew hears and says, across every department on set.

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